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Women’s College Bans the Word “Women”
I was at a restaurant recently and a waiter tripped over something and spilled a tray of drinks. I’m sure he was embarrassed, but I was uncomfortable as well. I was embarrassed for him. I’m not one who generally rejoices in watching someone make a fool of themselves. So I’m a little hesitant to admit how much I enjoyed this article on Fox News.
So the professors at a women’s college have been instructed not to use the word women (to avoid the appearance of thinking that there may be two genders). Perhaps next they won’t be allowed to use the word college (to avoid the appearance of thinking that there is some benefit to attending their institution). The left’s lack of any core principles (other than the ever-increasing acquisition of power) often leads to disconcerting conflicts. Disconcerting, and sometimes hilarious. The picture below is a good description of what’s happening on the left right now:
This is probably largely virtue signaling, but some of the “reasoning” behind banning the word “women” may be simply another example of the left thinking they can change reality by changing the language. Many of these people don’t live in reality, or at least they avoid it whenever possible. So their life is like the parable of the cave, in which they only see shadowy reflections of reality. Or someone else sees those reflections and then describes them to the students. Or something.
Or maybe I’m trying too hard to understand this. How do you seriously debate someone who does not take themselves, or anything else, seriously? I suppose I should at least consider the possibility that these people are just goofy.
Imagine Aristotle on a modern college campus. I would love to see his response to that memo…
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We had my parents’ 50th Wedding anniversary party at Mount Holyoke, which was weird, because my parents have always been very active in the pro-life movement, and many of those in attendance were pro-lifers. But Mount Holyoke was the only nice place we could afford, so what the heck? They did a great job; the servers were all students, and they were very nice and professional. They didn’t live up to their image at all.
Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Hanlon must have been, or should have been a police officer.
I’m trying to imagine a conversation where that mommy who doesn’t know whether her little one is a boy or a girl tries to tell the child what that thing down there (that used to be called a penis) is and why its there.
I don’t see how they can prevent men or persons of indeterminate gender from being admitted. If the whole two-sexes model of humans is out, then so it restricting admissions to women only. How can they even define women if biology is irrelevant?
In another case of “I’m not making this up,” this is their criteria for admissions:
Reality is unknowable for them, that has been their settled dogma since Kant. According to post-modernism, perception is reality, everything is a “social construct.” Changing language really does change reality, in that it changes our perception.
Oh. My. Lord.
you’re on a roll dude
so funny I almost had to flag it. especially: stuuuuudeeennnttt……
give me funny
@josephstanko – don’t take this the wrong way, but is that real? Is that from their own materials, or did someone else write it?
Again, it’s so hard to identify satire with progressives…
Why aren’t Greeks “minority?” There can’t be that many Greek-Americans and they look indistinguishable from Arab-Americans to this WASP. I’ve never understood the rules of neo-tribalism.
And Title IX? What’s the point of that now?
That’s what they did to the word “marriage” . . .
Sounds like discrimination based on sex. Where’s the ACLU when you need them?
You make a very good point. What are the odds any women will be able to make an athletic team? The left tries to defy reality, but it always bites back.
As I mentioned on a previous post, my daughter plays basketball on a top level Div I basketball team – they’re in the Sweet 16 right now. One of her professors said in class a few months ago that there was no real difference between the “genders,” that it was all just a social construct. My daughter spoke up and said, “I play on one of the best women’s basketball teams on the planet. And a decent mid-sized high school boy’s basketball team would beat us easily. They’re bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic. There is a difference between men and women, whether you want there to be or not.”
I told her she just failed that class, and don’t ever do that again. Tell the emperor that his clothes are lovely, and you’ll get good grades.
Also, writing in the word “men”.
And Government set asides for woman owned business….
FIFY
;-)
What if one identifies as a pretty pretty pony?
Is the rule that one cannot cite a source who is a member of the majority in their own society?
Nope, it’s discrimination based on gender-identity. Gender-identity is different from sex.
That’s the magic of it. It’s a workaround for the Civil Rights Act.
I am actually popping the popcorn to sit back and enjoy this show. It’s coming and it’s coming fast.
That clearly falls under “other”.
I bet women’s sports would get way better tv ratings if all the players were trans.
Once again you are using reason. Perhaps Greeks will be reclassified tomorrow, give it a day.
I bet she goes far in life, maybe not college, but her honest assessment of reality should serve her well.
So a man who identifies as a woman is treated as a woman… but a woman who identifies as a man is also treated as a woman. In other words, they ignore the sexual self-identification of women.
There you have it. Women aren’t taken seriously.
By women.